Forgiveness frees us. It heals our bodies and our lives.
Forgiveness does not mean that what a person did is right or wrong, but that we choose to forgive as a gift to ourselves.
It takes a lot of energy to keep someone out of our hearts. Sometimes that person we cannot forgive is ourselves.
Forgiveness means not allowing something from the past to continue to affect us negatively in the present.
Forgiveness comes from the heart, it moves the energy of the fourth chakra, Anahata, which is the gateway to the heart.
Forgiveness is medicine. It has a positive effect on the heart as it opens the core, allowing appreciation to take over. On the other hand, resentment has a negative effect on the heart, as it closes it.
To get to forgiveness, we must first work on the pain caused by the situation or person. So, it does not mean that what happened to us was right, it simply means that we will not let that experience affect us negatively. It is something we do for ourselves.
True forgiveness affects us from our very core. It changes our body, it is an experience of grace, of divinity.
In the healing process we always have to enable the action of letting go, giving up any concept of wanting to be in control.
Thus we begin to live more lightly, freeing ourselves from the burdens of the past, with an open heart.